Sheldon Whitehouse

Sheldon Whitehouse (20 October 1955-) was a US Senator from Rhode Island (D) from 3 January 2007, succeeding Lincoln Chafee.

Biography
Sheldon Whitehouse was born in New York City, New York on 20 October 1955 to a prominent family of diplomats and businessmen. He graduated from Yale University and the University of Virginia, and he worked as an attorney before becoming an assistant attorney general during the 1980s. From 1993 to 1998, he served as the District Attorney for Rhode Island under President Bill Clinton, and he served as Attorney General of Rhode Island from 1999 to 2003. In 2006, he was elected to the US Senate, and he supported Obamacare, global warming reduction, and Barack Obama's stimulus package. Like his predecessor Lincoln Chafee, he was liberal, but he was more to the left than Chafee on economic issues, making him the second-most liberal senator.